Today, in front of 80 family and friends, lifelong Broncos fan Rob Hess will marry lifelong Packers fan Emily Smith in the stands at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. They will dine and dance inside the stadium, and on Sunday, the couple will spend their first day as husband and wife watching their favorite teams play.

Emily will wear her wedding dress, Packers earrings and classic yellow cheesehead. Rob will don tuxedo, with an orange tie and orange Chuck Taylor shoes, and wear a foam horse on his head.

"I love my wife, but I would love to win this game," Rob said Friday.

Rob and Emily were long-distance sweethearts, with Emily attending nursing school in Minnesota and Rob working as an air traffic controller in Charlottesville, Va., where they will live when they are married.

Rob knew he wanted to propose before her graduation last winter, and endured the headaches of December travel to the upper Midwest to arrive at her home in the middle of the night. Wanting the proposal to be something private, just between the two of them, Rob took Emily away from her parents' home.

"As romantically I could, I proposed at a Denny's all-night restaurant," Rob said.

In those first hours after the engagement, the couple started discussing wedding plans. They wanted to keep the ceremony small and simple, and even talked about getting married before a justice of the peace.

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"As we talked about it more, she said, 'Well, if I were ever going to do a dream wedding, I would do it at Lambeau Field,' " Rob said.

Rob knew the Broncos and Packers were scheduled to play in 2011, but it wasn't until April that the NFL released the schedule, with the game date of Oct. 2. The couple thought it was perfect, and they began planning their football- themed wedding.

The wedding invitations featured a picture of the horsehead and cheesehead nuzzled together, and they mailed invitations to several of their all-time favorite Packers and Broncos.

"Mr. (John) Elway sent us an autographed picture and his congratulations," Rob said.

Rob, who grew up in Nebraska, his best man and Emily's bridesmaid will be pulling for the Broncos on Sunday. The extended Smith family will be rooting hard for the home team. Still, Rob said the divided sports loyalties won't do anything to spoil their first day of wedded bliss.

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